Its effects were immediate and disastrous.

The personnel of the accused assumed the nation's place.

Exhortations full of intense eloquence were addressed to the people from which the question of the country's deliverance was entirely excluded.

Technicalities of law absorbed the attention which was due to Liberty.

A demurrer, a motion in abatement, or in arrest of judgment, was canvassed with a deeper interest by the people of the provinces than by even the distinguished Bar, which were arrayed on either side.